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Known for its bountiful harvests of garlic and mushrooms.
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Welcome to Gilroy

Historic agricultural community with affordable homes.
 
Gilroy is a historic Santa Clara community with affordable homes and a pastoral agricultural landscape. The community is known for its bountiful harvests of garlic and mushrooms plus several excellent boutique wine producers. Gilroy’s garlic crop is celebrated at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, where you can sample creative products such as garlic ice cream. Gilroy’s wineries are located on the western side of the city, which features elegant estates at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The eastern side of the city has spacious single-family homes in relaxed neighborhoods with a suburban vibe.
 

What to Love

  • Affordable single-family homes
  • Estates on the east side of town
  • Gilroy Garlic Festival
  • Family-friendly suburban vibe

People & Lifestyle

Gilroy is home to many young professionals and their families. This small city offers an idyllic suburban lifestyle within easy reach of employment opportunities in San Jose and throughout Silicon Valley. The city is known as the garlic capital of the world, and the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival and downtown restaurants celebrate the city’s unique legacy with a plethora of unique garlic-based dishes and foodstuffs.
 

Dining, Entertainment & Shopping

Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park is a major local attraction with fun rides including a mini Ferris wheel, raft rides, and junior rollercoasters, carousels, and swing rides for young children. The theme park’s attractions also include the unique Circus Trees, a garden of trees initially cultivated in the early 20th century to create incredible shapes.
 
For shopping, Gilroy Premium Outlets offers discounted apparel from leading fashion brands including Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Forever 21, Francesca’s, Gap, Guess, H&M, Levi’s, Michael Kors, Polo Ralph Lauren, Steve Madden, and Tommy Hilfiger.
 
Businesses in Downtown Gilroy include Café 152 Bread Co., where menu favorites include tasty and nutritious burritos, Mediterranean fare, and smokehouse bowls for breakfast or lunch. Garlic City Café offers delicious American and Mediterranean-style dishes with garlicky specialties such as garlic calamari steak sandwiches, garlic fries and cheeseburgers, and Gilroy’s unique garlic ice cream. The Milias Restaurant serves inventive New American cuisine for brunch, lunch, and dinner and features a beautiful old-world interior and regular live music performances.
 

Things to Do

July’s Gilroy Garlic Festival is the community’s signature annual event and one of the most famous food festivals in California. The festival features cooking contests with top professional and amateur chefs plus live entertainment from country music acts across three stages. During the festival, attendees can sample all kinds of gourmet garlic-based foodstuffs and special signature cocktails.
 
Santa Clara County is one of California’s premier wine-producing regions, and Gilroy is home to one of the state’s oldest wineries. Kirigin Cellars was established in 1916, and it remains an innovative wine producer best-known for its coffee- and chocolate-infused Vino de Mocca. Eleven varieties of wine grapes are cultivated at Kirigin Cellars’ beautiful 33-acre estate. Visitors can sample these varietals in an elegant Tuscan-style Club House and explore the vineyards’ rolling landscape of rose bushes, redwood sequoias, and cricket lawns.
 
Gilroy Sports Park has trails and paths for jogging and walking, a playground, and sports fields dedicated to baseball, soccer, and softball. Gilroy Library is another great community resource, with lots of programs and classes for children, teenagers, and adults.
 

Schools

Gilroy operates its own Gilroy Unified School District. Highlights include:
 
  • Gilroy Prep School
  • Christopher High School
  • Los Animas Elementary School
  • Rod Kelley Elementary School
  • South Valley Middle School
  • Brownell Middle School
  • Gilroy High School
 
 
 

Overview for Gilroy, CA

67,945 people live in Gilroy, where the median age is 36.8 and the average individual income is $49,726. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

67,945

Total Population

36.8 years

Median Age

High

Population Density Population Density This is the number of people per square mile in a neighborhood.

$49,726

Average individual Income

Around Gilroy, CA

There's plenty to do around Gilroy, including shopping, dining, nightlife, parks, and more. Data provided by Walk Score and Yelp.

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Car-Dependent
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32
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Points of Interest

Explore popular things to do in the area, including L & M Vineyard, Caldwell's Comics & Cards, and Nerf Megga Events.

Name Category Distance Reviews
Ratings by Yelp
Dining 2.73 miles 5 reviews 5/5 stars
Shopping 1.17 miles 13 reviews 5/5 stars
Active 2 miles 7 reviews 5/5 stars
Active 0.86 miles 29 reviews 5/5 stars
Beauty 1.39 miles 10 reviews 5/5 stars
Beauty 0.86 miles 29 reviews 5/5 stars

Demographics and Employment Data for Gilroy, CA

Gilroy has 19,621 households, with an average household size of 3.43. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s what the people living in Gilroy do for work — and how long it takes them to get there. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 67,945 people call Gilroy home. The population density is 447.64 and the largest age group is Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

67,945

Total Population

High

Population Density Population Density This is the number of people per square mile in a neighborhood.

36.8

Median Age

50.44 / 49.56%

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19,621

Total Households

3.43

Average Household Size

$49,726

Average individual Income

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Schools in Gilroy, CA

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The following schools are within or nearby Gilroy. The rating and statistics can serve as a starting point to make baseline comparisons on the right schools for your family. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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